"Yes, it's late. Who's taking you?"
"I'm going with Mr. and Mrs. Morrison. They kindly asked me."
"Very well. Will you go now?"
"Yes, please. And, I—I want to thank you for setting me straight about the Blaneys."
"Don't include Alla. I doubt if she'd do a deceptive thing. But all the same, Patty, she's no friend for you. You don't care for her, do you?"
"No; I did at first, she interested me——"
"I know; 'interested you strangely,' as the novelists say."
"Yes, just that. She is so queer and unusual and——"
"Well, not to put too fine a point upon it, freakish."
"I suppose so. But I liked it all, at first. I don't mind owning up I was getting a little tired of it. It didn't——"